Jagged like the cliffs it celebrates, vibrant like the nature it depicts, and memorable like the Appalachian tunes that inspired it, Above Aglow Grandeurs is robust, tactile, and colorful in its musical depictions of Georgia’s high mountains, deep caverns, and rushing rivers immediately dropping the listener into the middle of an untamed land teeming with life.
-Joshua Rodriguez, composer and filmscorer
I. Overshadowed Altitudes; II. Lake of Darkness Gleaming; III. Grandeur I Knew Not
Duration: ca. 14′
Commissioned by the Georgia Music Teachers Association, and premiered by Ziqing Guan (flute), Alberto Suarez (horn), and Ian Guthrie (piano) at the 2025 GMTA Conference at Piedmont University, GA.